Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 06:43:01 -0700
Sender: pen-l@ecst.csuchico.edu
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Postmodernism and Politics (was Derrida)
 
On Wed, May 4  1994, R. Anders Schneiderman wrote:
 
> system was becoming wildly postmodern, costing taxpayers billions of
> dollars via the S&L bailout, etc., most of my postmodern friends had not a
> clue as to what was happening.  Why?  Because most strands of
> postmodernism taught on campuses made students very literate on
> epistemological issues and almost completely illiterate when it came to
> economic issues such as the system of finance.  We could endlessly
> deconstruct literary texts or reconstruct hidden "resistences", but when
> we talked about the world of economics, we had been given, at best, vulgar
> Marxist tools that were pretty much useless.  Frankly, we'd have been
> better off reading Business Week than Derrida, Foucault, the French
> Femminists, etc.
 
Ah but you'd be even better off reading LBO!
 
Doug Henwood [dhenwood@panix.com]